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Hakkaisan Yukimuro Snow Aged 8 Years Junmai Daiginjo
Hakkaisan Yukimuro Snow Aged 8 Years Junmai Daiginjo
Rice: Yamada Nishiki, Gohyakumangoku
Rice-Polishing Ratio: 50%
Brewery Location: Niigata
Food Pairings: Roasted meats and poultry, roasted root vegetables, squashes, fatty grilled fish. Roasted nuts - especially chestnut and peanut.
Tasting Notes: Lighter than the eight years of aging would lead you to believe. The yukimuro room, or snow chilled room, represents a very unique set of storage conditions - remarkable stable in temperature, cold but not sub zero. It leads to an aging that is remarkably elegant - this is not fruit salad sake aged nearly frozen, this is sake that reflects the depth and complexity and texture that aging brings but without the heavy handedness that is often assosciated with koshu sake. A relatively high abv (the sake is also genshu) keeps it light on the palate, with toasted rice, red miso, allspice, caramel, and pounded mochi on the nose.
Size: 720ml
Location: CA Distribution
Brewery: Hakkaisan Brewery Co., LTD
Founded: 1922
Profile: Founded in 1922, Hakkaisan Brewery is situated at the foot of Mount Hakkai in Niigata. The spring water that flows from the mountain is used to produce its sake. The guiding principles of the brewery are to produce the finest sake that people will never tire of, to apply the highest standards of production to all its sakes, and in order to achieve the smooth wonderfully pure and mellow flavors of Hakkaisan sake, the Brewery insists on producing in small batches, using hand-made koji and slow fermentation at low temperatures.
